St Nicholas Church, Leicester
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St Nicholas Church in Leicester is one of the city’s oldest surviving churches, notable for incorporating Roman masonry and standing beside the historic Jewry Wall.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St Nicholas Church, Leicester canonical | 1 |
| St Nicholas, Leicester | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10889798 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: St Nicholas Church, Leicester Context triple: [Jewry Wall, locatedNextTo, St Nicholas Church, Leicester]
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A.
Greyfriars Church, Leicester
Greyfriars Church in Leicester is the former friary site where the remains of King Richard III of England were buried and rediscovered in the 21st century.
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B.
St Nicholas Church
St Nicholas Church is a historic Gothic brick church in Stralsund, Germany, renowned for its impressive architecture and richly decorated interior.
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C.
St Nicholas Church
St Nicholas Church is a historic Christian church in Montgomery, often noted for its traditional architecture and role as a local landmark and place of worship.
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D.
All Saints Church, Leicestershire
All Saints Church in Leicestershire is a historic English parish church notable among other things as the final resting place of Egyptologist and soldier Richard William Howard Vyse.
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E.
St Martin, Leicester
St Martin, Leicester is the historic parish church in Leicester’s city center that now serves as Leicester Cathedral, noted for housing the tomb of King Richard III.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: St Nicholas Church, Leicester Target entity description: St Nicholas Church in Leicester is one of the city’s oldest surviving churches, notable for incorporating Roman masonry and standing beside the historic Jewry Wall.
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A.
Greyfriars Church, Leicester
Greyfriars Church in Leicester is the former friary site where the remains of King Richard III of England were buried and rediscovered in the 21st century.
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B.
St Nicholas Church
St Nicholas Church is a historic Gothic brick church in Stralsund, Germany, renowned for its impressive architecture and richly decorated interior.
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C.
St Nicholas Church
St Nicholas Church is a historic Christian church in Montgomery, often noted for its traditional architecture and role as a local landmark and place of worship.
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D.
All Saints Church, Leicestershire
All Saints Church in Leicestershire is a historic English parish church notable among other things as the final resting place of Egyptologist and soldier Richard William Howard Vyse.
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E.
St Martin, Leicester
St Martin, Leicester is the historic parish church in Leicester’s city center that now serves as Leicester Cathedral, noted for housing the tomb of King Richard III.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglican church
ⓘ
church building ⓘ listed building ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Jewry Wall ⓘ |
| associatedWithPeriod |
Roman Leicester
ⓘ
medieval Leicester ⓘ |
| builtFromMaterial |
Roman brick
ⓘ
Roman stone ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo |
Saint Nicholas
ⓘ
linked to:
Saint Nicholas of Myra
|
| denomination | Church of England ⓘ |
| diocese | Diocese of Leicester ⓘ |
| function | parish church ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalStyle |
Norman architecture
ⓘ
medieval architecture ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Romanesque arches
ⓘ
chancel ⓘ nave ⓘ tower ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.stnicholasleicester.com/ ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Grade I listed building ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationCountry | England ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic church ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
Leicester ⓘ Leicestershire ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Leicester city centre
ⓘ
linked to:
Leicester
|
| notableFor |
incorporation of Roman masonry in its fabric
ⓘ
proximity to the Roman Jewry Wall ⓘ |
| oneOfOldestBuildingsIn | Leicester ⓘ |
| oneOfOldestChurchesIn | Leicester ⓘ |
| parish |
St Nicholas, Leicester
ⓘ
linked to:
St Nicholas Church, Leicester
|
| province | Province of Canterbury ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | true ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Christian worship
ⓘ
community events ⓘ |
| usesRomanMasonry | true ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: St Nicholas Church, Leicester Description of subject: St Nicholas Church in Leicester is one of the city’s oldest surviving churches, notable for incorporating Roman masonry and standing beside the historic Jewry Wall.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: St Nicholas Church, Leicester